Question

I am using MVC3 and added model validation with required attributes. Then I have created page which has jquery dialog (not ajax dialog). Validation does not work in that case. But if I put html from dialog to page it works fine.

Does any body know how to solve problem?

Here is my JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function () { 
  $("#registerDialog").dialog({ autoOpen: false, show: "blind", hide: "explode", modal: true, resizable: false, height: 570, width: 390 });

  $(".headerButton").button(); 
  $(".accountBtn").button(); 
  $('ul').roundabout({ autoplay: 'false', autoplayDuration: 3000 }); 

  $("#registerBtn").click(function () { 
    $("#registerDialog").dialog("open"); return false; }); 
    $("#closeRegisterDialog").click(function () { $("#registerDialog").dialog("close"); 
   }); 

   $("#registerBtnSbmt").click(function () {
     $("#registerForm").submit(); return false; }); 
   })



@using (Html.BeginForm("Register", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "registerForm" }))
{       

    <div id="registerDialog" title="Регистрация">
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.FirstName)
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.FirstName, new { @class = "registerUser" })
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.FirstName)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.LastName)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.LastName, new { @class = "registerUser" })            
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.LastName)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Email)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Email, new { @class = "registerUser" })           
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Email)           
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Password)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Password, new { @class = "registerUser" })           
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Password)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword, new { @class = "registerUser" })            
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword)                                   
        <br/>
        @Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x.RememberYou) запомнить Вас?                        
        <br/>
         <br/>
        @Html.ActionLink("Сохранить", "LogIn", "Account", null, new { @class = "accountBtn", style = "font-size: 0.8em;", id = "registerBtnSbmt" })
       <a href="#" class="accountBtn" id="closeRegisterDialog" style = "font-size: 0.8em;">Закрыть</a>
    </div>
}

Answer 1

You need to move your form tags inside of your dialog. You will notice when you create the dialog and open it, it moves your div out of your form. You would want:

<div id="registerDialog" title="Регистрация">
    @using (Html.BeginForm("Register", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "registerForm" }))
    {       

        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.FirstName)
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.FirstName, new { @class = "registerUser" })
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.FirstName)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.LastName)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.LastName, new { @class = "registerUser" })            
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.LastName)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Email)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Email, new { @class = "registerUser" })           
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Email)           
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Password)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Password, new { @class = "registerUser" })           
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Password)          
        <br/>
        @Html.LabelFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword)           
        <br/>
        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword, new { @class = "registerUser" })            
        <br/>
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.ConfirmPassword)                                   
        <br/>
        @Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x.RememberYou) запомнить Вас?                        
        <br/>
         <br/>
        @Html.ActionLink("Сохранить", "LogIn", "Account", null, new { @class = "accountBtn", style = "font-size: 0.8em;", id = "registerBtnSbmt" })
       <a href="#" class="accountBtn" id="closeRegisterDialog" style = "font-size: 0.8em;">Закрыть</a>
    }
</div>

There is an explanation of why this happens at the bottom of this page

From the page:

One of the requirements of the dialog is that it appear as the
top-most element. The only way to accomplish this consistently in
Internet Explorer is to have the dialog be the last element in the
body, as it respects DOM order over z-index. There are generally two
work-arounds:

move the dialog element back somewhere else in the dom in the open event callback. This has the potential to allow other elements to

appear on top of the dialog (see above)

move the dialog content element somewhere else in the dom in the close event callback, before the submit. 

Neither of these are suitable for building in to the dialog, and are
left as suggested work-arounds. As the first comment on this ticket
suggests, this needs to be documented better.